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Sunday, 20 October 2013

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Celebratory Trailer Analysis

Storyboard of the Trailer

So the just launched 50th Anniversary trailer was awesome, yes? But how many things did you manage to pick out? Why not go back and give another look to double check.

Below is a visual trailer analysis I have been working on (with a bit of help) for the past few hours and includes most, if not all, of the references in the trailer. Did you get them all? Did I miss anything that you got or make a mistake? Let us know!

UPDATE 1: Added several more labels, with thanks to those who have pointed them out. There are still two things that have had a couple of suggestions but still unidentified. Firstly, on the 5th picture, there is a computer just above the pub sign. Secondly, on the 2rth, there is a device sticking out of Matt's shoulder. What could these be?

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How closely were you listening to it? Who did you hear echoing 11's speech?

Slide 3: - Top left, next to hieronymus' mask, are the head dress/hats of the white and black guardians (a white bird and a black bird).- The pram and the dummy are also from totter's yard - Is that a piece of the key to time below the words "robot santa mask"

Slide 4: - I think this scene has become the third doctor's workshop (~inferno?). - There is a tape recorder / player from the empty child to the right of the pub sign.

Slide 5: - Above the Dalek's plunger arm is an oval with three circles on it. I think it's a bit of Dalek set (from their original story)

Slide 6: - The part labelled key to time is also the key to time locator

Slide 17: -Left of the Voc robot's head, there is an object going off screen. I think it is the seventh doctor's tardis key (ghost light)

Slide 22: - I think the carved face looks more Aztec to me

Slide 23: - There is a another key to time segment in the lower right near the building (so that is two in that screenshot alone). - There is a little yeti statuette on matt's right shoulder (on our left)

A few things I can't work out:slide 14:- what are the reflections on the sphere held by sarah jane?- what is the destroyed building next to big ben (its not the house of parliament as it is too tall)slide 20:- near the cyberman's gun, what is that "disc and tube" (part of 9/10 tardis time column?)

While I can't dispute that the oval with the three circles on the back wall in Totter's Yard was in the original Dalek serial, it was definitely seen in Asylum of the Daleks: http://imageshack.us/a/img189/2665/neec.png

The 4th Doctor's burgundy scarf from his last season appears to be draped over something white as the camera pushes in the first scene just below the original series console to your left as you look at it. And that Dalek control panel on the back wall, the oval with 3 black circular half spheres.

I think there are at least 4 echoes. I've tried to listen carefully but I'm sure, those are 4 different voices. The first at 0.11 is a vary deep voice, the second at 0.21 is a younger man's voice. Finally at 0.35 there are the third and the fourth. The fourth one is without a doubt a famale voice. I can't tell for sure the third is different from the second and first ones, but the other voices are all different so I think we can be quite sure of this. I'm sorry for my english, it's not my language.

Slide 3 has a few things from Hartnell's era in the foreground. I think there's a machine from the Keys of Marinus, a box from the Giants story, a bit of the Meddling Monk's castle, and some puzzle squares from the Celestial Toymaker. Then it sneakily morphs into a very similar but different image.

In slide 5 there's a few Troughton things close to the Tardis. Snowshoes, a net and a crab monster.

In other slides, Eldrad's stone hand is beside k9, Sarah Jane is holding an Auton sphere, the big mountain on Tennant's right is the Royal Mountain of Peladon, the stone head is the priest from The Aztecs, and that is the Brigade Leader aka the Brigadier with the gun

P.S. I did mean to say... thank you so much for putting this post together.

Also, the face in the last slide looks like one of the liony dimension jumping people from the e-space stories in Tom Baker's era. The black spot on the same slide is the time lord's Eye of Harmony black hole.

P.S.S. in the last slide there's something that looks like a ring, it's the space station from the Tom Baker story Ark in Space. And David Tennant has a lot of things behind him at knee level - skyscrapers. And there's something in front of the Golden Gate.

I believe the first voice is Peter Davison. I'm not sure on the second one but to me it sounds a little bit like John Simm. The Female voice is Rose and the one before the dalek I think could be McGann.

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